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Jiang says the Bible names Abraham as patriarch of the Israelites, but the archaeological record has barely any evidence of David and no evidence before David, so he thinks David founded Israel rather than Abraham.
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Jiang says the Bible names Abraham as patriarch of the Israelites, but the archaeological record has barely any evidence of David and no evidence before David, so he thinks David founded Israel rather than Abraham.
"...is a patriarch of the Israelites. But the historical record, the archaeological record is, we barely have evidence of David. We have absolutely no..."
"...empire, all right? So this is what we know from the archaeological record."
The Bible begins, in this lecture's argument, as political spin for David: a library of collective imagination that turns usurpation, murder, and fear of rivals into legitimacy, identity, and eventually literature.
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